Changes needed

[ShockHawk22]

At this point it isn't the players fault. It's on the coaches. It's not hard to beat Iowa, I can break it down for you.

Opposing Defense:

1 on 1 on the outside. Dare them to go deep (won't happen more than once). Put every other available body in the box. Get Iowa into obvious passing downs and blitz the house.

Opposing offense:

Spread the field with 3-4 Wide receivers. 3 receivers on the wide side. This will pull one line backer way out of position and gets the middle linebacker out of the middle of the field. Now you have 4 down lineman and the weak side linebacker in the middle of the field with 2 deep safeties. Run read option (don't need to pull the ball ever because they freeze every time) right up the gut. The lone linebacker has yet to get off a block and you will get 4-6 yard a pop. Mix in a few crossing routes and don't turn the ball over.

Next game

 

[HawkeyeHype]

LOL!!! Simple stuff, lol.
1. Welsh is no LT and that won't help CJ's incredibly slow reads...and total lack of pocket presence.
2. Here we go again with the Bo Bower thing again. He is one of the LEAST of our defensive problems and has probably been the most consistent on defense this year. Have you seen our D-line? Have you seen how bad Taylor has played this year? Etc, etc. etc......
3. CJ needs to make quicker reads and decisions, period!
4. Really? Thanks for that wonderful nugget, lol..
5. At 1.7 yds. a carry, how can we run it more?
6. We are blitzing. Try to stay sober when you watch the games. We blitzed both Taylor and Jewell and we blow coverage and they score a long TD pass. OH, and we blitzed Jewell on the 1st TD pass, but he BLEW contain, let the QB roll out and hit the receiver that Taylor lost, in the back of the endzone. And we blitzed many more times, but their QB doesn't stand there holding the ball and looking lost.....
7. The D needs to make the right reads, get in their gaps and get off blocks!!!
8. He 'touched' it 15 times and averaged 2.4 yds. each time he did. Those 5 extra times (touches) would have got us an extra 12 yds. LOL....PROBLEM SOLVED, LOL.....
9. Use them for what? We had at least one of them in on every play.....
Do some of you really mean to be taken seriously when you post stuff like this? You have no idea what 'changes' need to be made to turn this around and from your list, I can see you have no idea what the 'problems' are. But thanks for giving me a good laugh......

1.7 yds a carry? Nice try. Daniels averaged 4.2 a carry. So yeah, run the ball more. You sit here and act like you are the know all of Hawkeye football and then you put some stupid number up like 1.7yds a carry. Its not even that low when you add in the -28 yards CJ lost from getting sacked 6 times. Use the TEs for what?? Hmmmmmm.... idk. Maybe throw it to them? Have you been watching the games this year or do you just sit on here waiting to rip someone. Kittle is a game changer when we find ways to get him the ball. Every time he runs a route up the middle he is a threat and even when we have to force it into him he can make a play. We threw it to him maybe twice and the one ball he caught was a huge play and a great catch. Use them for what hahaha. You're either trying to hard to disagree with someone or just don't know Iowa football. The last time we utilized a TE was Moeaki. We saw how that worked out.

 

[David79]

Changes we need to make:
1. Move welsh to LT
2. Bo bower replaced by mends
3. CJ must run football
4. Stop stupid penalties
5. Run the freakin ball more
6. Blitz
7. Play on d all the time with urgency
8. Akrum needs twenty touches
9. Use TE

Seems like simple stuff but our coaches refuse to adjust it seems

Agree there needs to be some changes. I can't figure out for the life of me whey they just aren't running it almost every play. In the third when they should have come out running the ball they started throwing more. Makes no sense when you can't protect the QB.

 

[David79]

Parker also needs to stop with thinking they can only play a few guys on the dline the whole game. Other teams withe equal or lesser talent routinely play more bodies on the dline than Iowa does. Makes no sense.

 

[David79]

It is simply amazing to me that people have no idea what the problems are, but throw out these hairbrain 'opinions' anyway. You have NO idea what the sam hill you are talking about....OUR ALLEGED SUPERSTARS ARE PLAYING LIKE SHIT, for starters. Jewell makes lots of tackles, but is blowing plays right and left. Blew contain on a blitz allowing the QB to roll out and hit the WR in the endzone, stupid facemask to help a drive, didn't 'fit' his gap and gave up the long TD run....I can go on and on about others (King' blown coverage, Taylor's really bad plays AGAIN, CJ's HORRIBLE reads (he has checkdowns but he is so slow in his progressions, he never gets to them. exp: Look at Mitchell on the last play they ran!!!) etc. etc. etc., and the 'film' supports everything I see and say...I'm no CGI master, lol....

You have no idea what you are talking about. Jewell and King have the only ones on D playing great football.

 

[David79]

LOL!!! Simple stuff, lol.
1. Welsh is no LT and that won't help CJ's incredibly slow reads...and total lack of pocket presence.
2. Here we go again with the Bo Bower thing again. He is one of the LEAST of our defensive problems and has probably been the most consistent on defense this year. Have you seen our D-line? Have you seen how bad Taylor has played this year? Etc, etc. etc......
3. CJ needs to make quicker reads and decisions, period!
4. Really? Thanks for that wonderful nugget, lol..
5. At 1.7 yds. a carry, how can we run it more?
6. We are blitzing. Try to stay sober when you watch the games. We blitzed both Taylor and Jewell and we blow coverage and they score a long TD pass. OH, and we blitzed Jewell on the 1st TD pass, but he BLEW contain, let the QB roll out and hit the receiver that Taylor lost, in the back of the endzone. And we blitzed many more times, but their QB doesn't stand there holding the ball and looking lost.....
7. The D needs to make the right reads, get in their gaps and get off blocks!!!
8. He 'touched' it 15 times and averaged 2.4 yds. each time he did. Those 5 extra times (touches) would have got us an extra 12 yds. LOL....PROBLEM SOLVED, LOL.....
9. Use them for what? We had at least one of them in on every play.....
Do some of you really mean to be taken seriously when you post stuff like this? You have no idea what 'changes' need to be made to turn this around and from your list, I can see you have no idea what the 'problems' are. But thanks for giving me a good laugh......

No. Bo Bower is the worst LB on the field for Iowa easily and while he has played better than some of DL and the safeties, that isn't saying much. Better than horrible doesn't = good.

 

[kicker22]

At this point it isn't the players fault. It's on the coaches. It's not hard to beat Iowa, I can break it down for you.

Opposing Defense:

1 on 1 on the outside. Dare them to go deep (won't happen more than once). Put every other available body in the box. Get Iowa into obvious passing downs and blitz the house.

Opposing offense:

Spread the field with 3-4 Wide receivers. 3 receivers on the wide side. This will pull one line backer way out of position and gets the middle linebacker out of the middle of the field. Now you have 4 down lineman and the weak side linebacker in the middle of the field with 2 deep safeties. Run read option (don't need to pull the ball ever because they freeze every time) right up the gut. The lone linebacker has yet to get off a block and you will get 4-6 yard a pop. Mix in a few crossing routes and don't turn the ball over.

Next game

Totally get where your coming from but at the same time since it's been like this since the beginning of time and the philosophy and schemes have changed very little then how do you explain the years we've succeeded. While I definitely get it not being solely on the players they have to be held accountable as well as they proved last year that they can/did win with these same schemes. I'm by no means giving any of the staff a free pass, but I feel that everyone (both coaches and players) need to be held accountable. The coaches need to figure things out, but the players need to get it done as well.

 

[HawkGold]

There is a noticeable drop off on interior D speed from this year to last year. In the Pitt game, it was noticeable and indicated a good season. It isn't there this year period. It is bad. Getting to 6 wins will be tough. I hope they don't go bowling with 5 or 6 wins.

 

[David79]

At this point it isn't the players fault. It's on the coaches. It's not hard to beat Iowa, I can break it down for you.

Opposing Defense:

1 on 1 on the outside. Dare them to go deep (won't happen more than once). Put every other available body in the box. Get Iowa into obvious passing downs and blitz the house.

Opposing offense:

Spread the field with 3-4 Wide receivers. 3 receivers on the wide side. This will pull one line backer way out of position and gets the middle linebacker out of the middle of the field. Now you have 4 down lineman and the weak side linebacker in the middle of the field with 2 deep safeties. Run read option (don't need to pull the ball ever because they freeze every time) right up the gut. The lone linebacker has yet to get off a block and you will get 4-6 yard a pop. Mix in a few crossing routes and don't turn the ball over.

Next game

These next two games could be blood baths. Both teams will just run over Iowa and the Iowa O will again be shell shocked.

 

[David79]

There is a noticeable drop off on interior D speed from this year to last year. In the Pitt game, it was noticeable and indicated a good season. It isn't there this year period. It is bad. Getting to 6 wins will be tough. I hope they don't go bowling with 5 or 6 wins.

The three guys Iowa lost on D have been replaced with guys that shouldn't be starting. Snyder, Bower, and M. Nelson.

 

[HawkGold]

The three guys Iowa lost on D have been replaced with guys that shouldn't be starting. Snyder, Bower, and M. Nelson.

In my opinion, I remember thinking in 09 that d interior speed was also noticeable. Told my kid that Iowa was going to be good due to how they played with speed against AZ. They looked fast against a Pac 10 team that finished 2nd. I hadn't noticed the speed again until last year. This year is slow as molasses. You can't coach that up.

 

[ShockHawk22]

Totally get where your coming from but at the same time since it's been like this since the beginning of time and the philosophy and schemes have changed very little then how do you explain the years we've succeeded. While I definitely get it not being solely on the players they have to be held accountable as well as they proved last year that they can/did win with these same schemes. I'm by no means giving any of the staff a free pass, but I feel that everyone (both coaches and players) need to be held accountable. The coaches need to figure things out, but the players need to get it done as well.

That is a great point. And to me, the most frustrating. How does a team that brought back so much, look this different? Opposing teams aren't doing anything new to Iowa because, well, they don't need to. What's different from last year? Can't be the schedule because we haven't even gotten to the difficult stretch yet.... color me confused

 

[Joshbrown]

Changes we need to make:
1. Move welsh to LT
2. Bo bower replaced by mends
3. CJ must run football
4. Stop stupid penalties
5. Run the freakin ball more
6. Blitz
7. Play on d all the time with urgency
8. Akrum needs twenty touches
9. Use TE

Seems like simple stuff but our coaches refuse to adjust it seems

long list of changes needed = one change needed

coach

 

[David79]

Look at the last part of the year last year. It isn't that different than this year. Difference is new players have been below average while the Seniors that were lost were above average. They also weren't making costly mistakes/penalties last year and were coming up big in big situations. After the Northwestern and Maryland games they actually played poorly. Look at the D late last year:

Indiana: 407 yarrds with over 200 coming on the ground
Minnesota: 434 yards with 300 through the air
Purdue: 405 yards
Nebraska: 433 yards
Stanford: about 430

Both Purdue and Nebraska outgained Iowa. Iowa failed to go over 300 yards against Wisconsin, Maryland, Nebraska, MSU, and Stanford. Iowa struggled last year with the same offenses it is struggling with this year but like I said it is made worse this year by the personnel replacing the guys that were lost. It seems Iowa is only prepared to stop teams that run a similar offense like Wisconsin and MSU but the majority of offenses these days run the kind of offenses they have seen this season the spread teams that run read option. In addition, Iowa struggles on offense against aggressive defensive teams. Iowa also refuses to run the ball more than it passes even though they can't protect CJ.

Iowa went from 24-17 to down 38-24 without calling one running play.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Changes we need to make:
1. Move welsh to LT
2. Bo bower replaced by mends
3. CJ must run football
4. Stop stupid penalties
5. Run the freakin ball more
6. Blitz
7. Play on d all the time with urgency
8. Akrum needs twenty touches
9. Use TE

Seems like simple stuff but our coaches refuse to adjust it seems

10) Need to throw to the RB's like at least 6 times a game to diversify the offense.

Also, where the heck has the jet sweep been?

 

[MelroseHawkins]

I think this is a classic case of over-reaction after a close game. The Hawks are 1-1 in conference and have a path to the Conference Championship and a New Years Six Game. Total control of their own destiny. We just have to execute a little better and do the basics like block and tackle good. Just watch by the end of the season we will look back and laugh at this week.

It's not the fact that Iowa lost a couple close games, it's that they look like nothing like they did last year with virtually the same players. It's that they are making stupid and uncharacteristic plays that an Iowa team usually does not. That is is what is disconcerting.

 

[DBAHawkFan]

Look at the last part of the year last year. It isn't that different than this year. Difference is new players have been below average while the Seniors that were lost were above average. They also weren't making costly mistakes/penalties last year and were coming up big in big situations. After the Northwestern and Maryland games they actually played poorly. Look at the D late last year:

Indiana: 407 yarrds with over 200 coming on the ground
Minnesota: 434 yards with 300 through the air
Purdue: 405 yards
Nebraska: 433 yards
Stanford: about 430

Both Purdue and Nebraska outgained Iowa. Iowa failed to go over 300 yards against Wisconsin, Maryland, Nebraska, MSU, and Stanford. Iowa struggled last year with the same offenses it is struggling with this year but like I said it is made worse this year by the personnel replacing the guys that were lost. It seems Iowa is only prepared to stop teams that run a similar offense like Wisconsin and MSU but the majority of offenses these days run the kind of offenses they have seen this season the spread teams that run read option. In addition, Iowa struggles on offense against aggressive defensive teams. Iowa also refuses to run the ball more than it passes even though they can't protect CJ.

Iowa went from 24-17 to down 38-24 without calling one running play.

This is well stated, and really brings up what most of us may have missed last year. We progressively played more and more conservative, with our defense getting gashed more and more each game.

Indiana, MN, MD games all came down to onside kicks for us to beat them. NE killed themselves with how many turnovers? And thankfully we had Canzeri running out of his mind that game. We really got all the bounces last year, that in previous years we did not get. There was also a spark on the 2015 team that is gone from this years. Maybe it was the seniors???

Old Kirk definitely came back in the later part of 2015, and he's full on conservative for this year.

And the fact that we came out passing when up 24-17.....it makes no sense! And I get it, someone will say if we came out running, it's being conservative. But there's a differnce to running up the gut for two straight plays, and still being creative with the running game. Instead we threw the ball knowing we couldn't protect the passer

 

[atomicblue224]

Lol,

Maybe Kirk needs to talk to the people over at the Apple Corporation. "Hey you guys have a faster processor over there? Mine's not keeping up with speed of play."

"My offensive coordinator also needs a hard drive. He's been trying to put one together all season and he doesn't have the right parts to do it."

 

[blubberhawk]

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LOL!!! Simple stuff, lol.
1. Welsh is no LT and that won't help CJ's incredibly slow reads...and total lack of pocket presence.
2. Here we go again with the Bo Bower thing again. He is one of the LEAST of our defensive problems and has probably been the most consistent on defense this year. Have you seen our D-line? Have you seen how bad Taylor has played this year? Etc, etc. etc......
3. CJ needs to make quicker reads and decisions, period!
4. Really? Thanks for that wonderful nugget, lol..
5. At 1.7 yds. a carry, how can we run it more?
6. We are blitzing. Try to stay sober when you watch the games. We blitzed both Taylor and Jewell and we blow coverage and they score a long TD pass. OH, and we blitzed Jewell on the 1st TD pass, but he BLEW contain, let the QB roll out and hit the receiver that Taylor lost, in the back of the endzone. And we blitzed many more times, but their QB doesn't stand there holding the ball and looking lost.....
7. The D needs to make the right reads, get in their gaps and get off blocks!!!
8. He 'touched' it 15 times and averaged 2.4 yds. each time he did. Those 5 extra times (touches) would have got us an extra 12 yds. LOL....PROBLEM SOLVED, LOL.....
9. Use them for what? We had at least one of them in on every play.....
Do some of you really mean to be taken seriously when you post stuff like this? You have no idea what 'changes' need to be made to turn this around and from your list, I can see you have no idea what the 'problems' are. But thanks for giving me a good laugh......

The reality is that Iowa is "out athleted" by almost every team we play. Our front 7 is slow. Our wide outs are slow. To be honest, Iowa probably has more talent than only 2 or three schools in the BIG,

 

[Ickehawk]

The three guys Iowa lost on D have been replaced with guys that shouldn't be starting. Snyder, Bower, and M. Nelson.

That is an interesting opinion

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The reality is that Iowa is "out athleted" by almost every team we play. Our front 7 is slow. Our wide outs are slow. To be honest, Iowa probably has more talent than only 2 or three schools in the BIG,

You nailed it!!! Please send this insight to.....kelvin-bell@hawkeyefootball.com